Gadgetory

what's up Bryant on here and welcome to google issues for everything google that we can pack inside of a show now a few weeks ago we talked about how Google Glasses moved on from there Google's advanced technology and Projects Division to be their own group well now it's project tangos turn Google's 3d mapping smartphone and tablet hardware is moving into their own home within Google's walls now project tango tracks the 3d motion of the device and then creates a 3d model of the environment around it 200 prototype dev kits are planning to be distributed in March to developers and they also plan to build 4,000 tablets for some developers sometime in June also Android hit a historic landmark recently with the announcement from strategy analytics that they have sold 1 billion smartphones worldwide in 2014 thanks to key growth in China now globally Android holds a dominating eighty-one percent of the market Apple sits at fifteen percent and Microsoft's at three now you know there may be a billion Android devices on the market but how many people have actually even upgraded to lollipop well it's taken a while for the rollout to happen across all devices with plenty still waiting like the HTC One m8 and m7 but finally there has been enough progress for lollipop to show up on Google's developer dashboards page with a tiny one point six percent share of the current android install base see lollipop didn't even show up on the dev page until recently just showing you how weak the adoption rate has really been alright Google now is getting a whole lot more love with the addition of now cards from some of your favorite apps 40 apps will now be able to give you a glance of the latest information to be aware of ranging from music recommendations on apps like pandora completing a language lesson from duolingo or places to stay in the area on air B&B ok no one likes ads I know you don't accept advertisers and the most common plug-in to help you with this is adblock but it may not be so helpful in the near future after the Financial Times reports that google along with other tech giants like amazon and Microsoft have reached a deal with adblock plus to prevent the service from blocking ads on their websites now add block has roughly 50 million active monthly users of the service and no dollar figures released for the terms of these deals smaller sites were able to take advantage of a special service to allow people to still see ads on their sites for free but for Google and others it cost an undisclosed fee alright Samsung has apparently released some invites out to their first unpacked event of 2015 the invites first appeared on Vietnamese site tint a and haven't officially been released according to Samsung just yet but if this is real the sneak peek shows off a dramatically curved edge and reminds us of some of the concepts of phones we saw at CES over two years ago but one thing we're pretty sure will see the galaxy s6 in fact we may have already seen it after these pics leaked from phoneArena showcase what could potentially be the design of the essex in three different colors that match up with the rumors of a metal edge and a glass back it's a safe look to be sure and very iPhone 4 and five ish on the back but it also matches up pretty decently with the galaxy s6 cases we've seen that are currently on sale right now on web sites like Amazon and just in case you weren't sure what direction LG will be going in next for their smart phone line the Korean company just trademarked names for six years worth of flagship phones with the LG g4 g5g six g7 g8 and can you guess the next one the g9c you really are smart now they're not even a guarantee they will stick with this naming of their gadgets but better safe than sorry in case the next iPhone is called the LG g4 alright that's going to do it for this week's show you can always email us at google issues at cnet com or tweet me at brian Tong thanks so much watching we'll catch y'all next time for some more of that Google ish's delicious